Bivalvia - Cardiida - Anthracosiidae
Full reference: C. T. Trechmann. 1917. The Trias of New Zealand. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 73(3):165-246
Belongs to Anodontophora according to C. T. Trechmann 1917
Sister taxa: Unionites albertii, Unionites bittneri, Unionites borealis, Unionites breviformis, Unionites brevis, Unionites canalensis, Unionites donacinus, Unionites elisabethae, Unionites fassaensis, Unionites gregarius, Unionites griesbachi, Unionites guizhouensis, Unionites jacobi, Unionites kobyumensis, Unionites letticus, Unionites manmuensis, Unionites minimus, Unionites muensteri, Unionites ovalis, Unionites posterus, Unionites rhomboidalis, Unionites sorokovi, Unionites spicatus, Unionites subrectus, Unionites trapezoidalis, Anodontophora purdoni, Anodontophora elongata, Anodontophora subovalis, Anodontophora omolonica, Anodontophora angulata, Anodontophora sublettica, Anodontophora conjugens, Anodontophora telleri, Anoplophora isocardioides, Anoplophora torreana, Anoplophora pappi, Anoplophora shastensis, Anoplophora recta, Myacites baconicus, Myacites obtusus, Myacites inconspicuus, Myacites depressus, Myacites faba, Myacites grandis, Myacites radiatus, Myacites musculoides, Myacites (Pleuromya)
Type specimen: Its type locality is Otamita Stream (Bed "C"), which is in a Carnian marine shale in New Zealand
Ecology: facultatively mobile infaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of New Zealand (1 collection), Peru (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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